Headless chrome + ignore-certificate-errors

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asked Jul 26, 2019 in DevOps and Agile by Han Zhyang (19.7k points)

I need to get headless chrome to ignore certificate errors. The option is ignored when running in headless mode, and the driver returns empty html body tags when navigating to an https resource.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head></head><body></body></html>

This is how I am configuring my chrome driver.

ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.addArguments("--headless", "--disable-gpu", "--window-size=1920,1200","--ignore-certificate-errors");
DesiredCapabilities cap=DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
cap.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, chromeOptions);
cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_INSECURE_CERTS, true);
chromeHeadlessDriver = new ChromeDriver(cap);

This thread confirms that --ignore-certificate-errors is ignored in headless mode.

They mention about devtool protocol.

Is it something I can invoke from java? Are there any other alternatives?

1 Answer

Prabhpreet Kaur · Answer 1 · 2019-07-26T12:48:03+0000

I have tested the below code, it works perfectly fine with this website: https://www.intellipaat.com/

    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
    options.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
    options.addArguments("--headless", "--window-size=1920,1200","--ignore-certificate-errors");

    DesiredCapabilities crcapabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
    crcapabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
    crcapabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
    crcapabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_INSECURE_CERTS, true);

    System.setProperty(ChromeDriverService.CHROME_DRIVER_LOG_PROPERTY, "C:\temp\chrome\chromedriver.log");
    System.setProperty(ChromeDriverService.CHROME_DRIVER_EXE_PROPERTY, "C:\temp\chrome\chromedriver.exe");

    ChromeDriverService service = null;
    try {
        service = new ChromeDriverService.Builder()
                .usingAnyFreePort()
                .withVerbose(true)
                .build();
        service.start();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    RemoteWebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(service.getUrl(),crcapabilities);

    driver.get("https://www.intellipaat.com/");
    System.out.println(driver.getPageSource());
    driver.quit();

Software/framework versions

Google Chrome Version 64.0.3282.186
Google Chrome Driver Version 64.0.3282.186
Selenium version 3.11.0

Headless chrome + ignore-certificate-errors

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